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Yossi Matias

Israeli computer scientist

Yossi Matias (Hebrew: יוסי מטיאס) is an Israeli-American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and technology executive. He serves as Vice President of Engineering & Research at Google and is the Head of Google Research.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Yossi Matias (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born 1958.¹

About

Matias was the founding managing director of Google's Center in Israel.

Matias has been part of the leadership team of Google Research, serving as the global executive lead for initiatives in Health AI, Crisis Response, and Climate AI, and leads work in Conversational AI.

For more than a decade, he was a key figure in Google Search leadership, helping develop and oversee products and features including Google Trends, Google Autocomplete, Search Console, and search experiences related to weather, sports, and dictionaries. In 2024, Matias relocated to Silicon Valley to lead Google Research globally, overseeing the company's worldwide research activities.

Matias established the Research and Development Center of Google in Israel. growing it to over 2500 on staff, with efforts working on Search, AI, Waze, Cloud and Chip design. He led the development of Google products such as Google Trends, Google Insights for Search, Google Suggest, Google Visualization API, Ephemeral IDs for IoT.

From Wikipedia’s article on Yossi Matias, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

GoogleVice president 2006 to now¹²

Early life and education

Date not recordedTel Aviv University³
Date not recordedWeizmann Institute of Science³

Career

Occupation: chief executive officer, businessperson, mathematician, computer scientist, manager.⁶

Since 2006Vice president, Google⁴
Date not recordedWorked at Tel Aviv University⁴
Date not recordedWorked at Stanford University⁴
Date not recordedWorked at Bell Labs⁴
Date not recordedChief executive officer⁵

Personal life

CitizenshipIsrael⁷

Awards

2019Paris Kanellakis Award^{8 11}
2009ACM Fellow^{8 10}
2005Gödel Prize^{8 9}

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Wikimedia CommonsYossi Matias photo by simone.brunozzi, CC BY-SA 2.0